The advent of Sheshonk and the internecine strife of the provinces at length completed the ruin of Thebes, and the school which had produced so many masterpieces perished miserably.
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202 .-- Queen Ameniritis.] [Illustration: Fig.

203 .-- The goddess Thueris.

Saite work.] The Renaissance did not dawn till near the end of the Ethiopian Dynasty, some three hundred years later.

The over-praised statue of Queen Ameniritis[50] (fig.